afro

IPA: ˈæfroʊ

hairstyle characterized by tightly curled locks and a rounded shape.
A person of African ancestry
Alternative form of afro [hairstyle characterized by tightly curled locks and a rounded shape.]

Examples of "afro" in Sentences

Oh, and the bassist's afro is rather intimidating.
a woman with a large, round, very orange afro is standing slightly ahead of me.
Of course, the style we know as afro-beat wouldn't sound anything like it without him.
I like I've got big curly afro, which is really -- I like to rock that when men like that.
One guy, who is directly across from me, has a huge afro, is Asian, and is always shirtless.
Sometimes Matias brings in afro-cuban rhythms and his sampled voice takes on Ladysmith Black Mambazo feel.
Black male, short afro commits a robbery in the same vicinity where a black male with a short afro is seen running.
Her voice, her talent with the guitar and the natural style in which she maintained her hair-later to be dubbed "afro" - set her as an icon of the civil rights movement.
; the woman who thinks afro is short for afrodisiac, having something to do "with colored people being so highly sexed"; The Glory of the Hummingbird (New York: Popular Library, 1974), p. 103. the character who thinks "exhibitors" are "preverts"; Madder Music, p. 74. the character who thinks a penal colony is a place where male chauvinists should be incarcerated I Hear America Swinging (New York: Popular Library, 1977), p. 149.